Pioneer VSX-920-K: An introduction to RDS Searching for RDS programs

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An introduction to RDS

Searching for RDS programs

Radio Data System (RDS) is a system used by

One of the most useful features of RDS is the

most FM radio stations to provide listeners with

ability to search for a particular kind of radio

various kinds of information—the name of the

program. You can search for any of the

station and the kind of show they’re

program types listed above.

broadcasting, for example.

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1 Press

TUNER

to select the FM band.

One feature of RDS is that you can search by

2 Press

PTY SEARCH

.

type of program. For example, you can search

PTY SEARCH shows in the display.

for a station that’s broadcasting a show with

the program type, JAZZ.

3 Press

PRESET

/

to select the program

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You can search the following program types:

type you want to hear.

NEWS – News

FINANCE – Stock market

4 Press ENTER to search for the program type.

AFFAIRS – Current Affairs

reports, commerce,

The system starts searching through all

INFO

– General

trading, etc.

frequency for a match. When it finds one, the

Information

CHILDREN – Programs for

SPORT – Sport

children

search stops and the station plays for five

EDUCATE – Educational

SOCIAL – Social affairs

seconds.

DRAMA – Radio plays, etc.

RELIGION – Programs

CULTURE – National or

concerning religion

5 If you want to keep listening to the

regional culture, theater,

PHONE IN – Public

station, press

ENTER

within the five seconds.

etc.

expressing their views by

If you don’t press ENTER, searching resumes.

SCIENCE – Science and

phone

technology

TRAVEL – Holiday-type

If NO PTY is displayed it means the tuner

VARIED – Usually talk-

travel rather than traffic

couldn’t find that program type at the time of

based material, such as

announcements

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the search.

quiz shows or interviews.

LEISURE – Leisure

POP M – Pop music

interests and hobbies

Displaying RDS information

ROCK M – Rock music

JAZZ – Jazz

Use the DISP button to display the different

EASY M – Easy listening

COUNTRY

– Country

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types of RDS information available.

LIGHT M – ‘Light’ classical

music

music

NATION M – Popular

• Press

DISP

for RDS information.

CLASSICS – ‘Serious’

music in a language other

Each press changes the display as follows:

classical music

than English

OTHER M – Music not

OLDIES – Popular music

• Radio Text (RT) – Messages sent by the

fitting above categories

from the ’50s and ’60s

radio station. For example, a talk radio

WEATHER – Weather

FOLK M – Folk music

station may provide a phone number as RT.

reports

DOCUMENT

–

Documentary

• Program Service Name (PS) – The name of

the radio station.

•Program Type (PTY) – This indicates the

kind of program currently being broadcast.

• Current tuner frequency.

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1 In addition, there are two other program types, TEST and NONE. You can’t search for these.

2 RDS is only possible in the FM band.

3 RDS searches all frequency. If the program type could not be found among all frequency, NO PTY is displayed.

4 • If any noise is picked up while displaying the RT scroll, some characters may be displayed incorrectly.

• If you see NO RT DATA in the RT display, it means no RT data is sent from the broadcast station.

• If you see NO PS DATA in the PS display, it means no PS data can be received.

• If you see NO PTY DATA in the PTY display, it means no PTY data can be received.